The Bluest Eye

I'd read other works of Morrison's before but not this one, but I got tickets to see a production of the play version of it and figured I should try to read the book first. Feels dumb to be like “wow Toni Morrison is a great writer” but like, wow. Especially for a debut novel, just so powerful right out of the gate, and sadly still resonant.

(Reading it and knowing I was going to see it as a play, I kept wondering how the adaptation would work because the structure here is so specific and so much of the book's power comes from that and from the narrative voice. But it turns out that's why I'm not a dramaturg because the play was also very powerful just also different and ultimately I think more hopeful than the book. But both are very good imo! Hot take!)